Workshop Menulis Fiksi Autobiografis Dalam Skema Autobiografi Poskolonial Untuk Guru Sekolah Al-Irsyad Satya Islamic School Bandung

Abstract

As an international school which is an affiliation of Al-Irsyad Singapore, the curriculum applied at Al-Irsyad Satya Islamic School, Kotabaru Parahyangan, Bandung is Cambridge and national curriculae. Thus, the language used in the classroom and in school area is English. The combination of the two curriculae causes two cultures (English and Indonesian) to meet.The teaching-learning activities conducted by teachers who were participants of the workshop is basically the area where the two cultures meet. It is within this frame that postcolonial context becomes necessary as an approach lens of the writing activity conducted in the workshop within the scheme of Community Engagement. This article describes the workshop on writing autogiobraphical fiction in the scheme of postcolonial autobiography for teachers of the English Department, Al-Irsyad Satya Islamic School, Kotabaru Parahyangan, Bandung. The participants were teachers whose daily responsibilities are related to teaching-learning activities in English. This workshop is projected to assist teachers in having consciousness both within themselves and their surroundings, and also the ability to identify their positions in the global world. The main activity of this workshop is writing fiction whose materials related to personal experiences